Beyond the Border
This project proposes a counter architecture to a typical border wall at the US/Mexico border. The building is imagined not only as site specific in this case but is also given ambiguity that this architectural condition can occur in any border location between Mexico and the United States, perhaps even at a global scale.
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Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass, United States
PUBLISHED ON 13th June 2020
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Clear and well-communicated design but doesn't look further than the brief.
The proposal refers directly to the work of Superstudio, a situation that leads to avoiding connection with the objective of the competition, where the perimeters of the project and therefore the scope are not clear. It does not show a sense of temporality and the communal spaces remain unclear.
General Comments The competition poses a highly complex and difficult question. The restriction to use the bridge as project site narrows down the solutions to - in the best case- intelligent and technical design solutions. Because of that, many of the projects don’t reflect on the question of migration politics, social challenges, and the real problems beyond the architectural solution. To evaluate the projects, my priority was to look for a basic reflection on the migration situation and the related design challenge and a basic idea of the project related to this reflection. The further development of the project has to be coherent to this idea and the design outcome has to reflect somehow the values of the idea. The criteria of proper representation helps to understand the idea and the development. Not the best looking image is the winner, but the most coherent graphic language and argumentation line. The compliance of the room program, I don’t consider relevant in this stage of design, so all the projects have the same evaluation.